Costs would not go up. Instead, Americans would make more money as citizens would be promoted and foreign workers would no longer take the higher-paid jobs.

https://www.uscis.gov/working-...

H-1B are "specialty occupation" jobs which usually means white-collar work and the jobs that require years of experience / degrees.
H-2A are temporary agricultural workers. Those are the people that do the farming jobs Americans don't want.
H-2B are temporary non-agricultural workers. Those are people who also get paid a lot less.

H1B visa requirements should raise the minimum amount of pay to $500k a year. Currently it is a minimum of $60k with a difference in cost of living. This is why you see a lot of H1B workers in lower CoL areas.

If you can't find a person in the United States that can do a job then the non-American person(s) taking that work must be top-talent and/or have skills nobody possesses.

I was a hunt-and-peck typer for many years, then I learned how to type because I needed to learn it for school; However, I still needed to see the keyboard.
Then, after many years of using a keyboard for my job, I learned how to touch type because it's a tool, not a "somewhat useful thing" when it comes to IT.
If you can't touch type as a professional IT professional, quit your job and let the people who actually know how to use their tools take over.

Touch typing is synonymous with using a hammer in construction. If you can't use a hammer correctly, how are you a tradesman?

When I watch people hit the arrow keys a hundred times when they could use a quicker method, I just want to grab the keyboard and demote them to tier 1 phone support.
Then you get to Vi(m) and want to tell them "I think your skills will be better used at Wal-Mart as the door greeter".

Why the hell should someone write an essay for why they want to go to college? It's 2025, make it a video and it can be 5x faster.

I hated writing essays back when I was younger. I wrote a terrible essay for 3 scholarships to community college and got one of them. I found out it was because I was the only applicant.

I'm not a terrible writer, I just don't know why I need to dignify to someone else why I should have free money over another person that could potentially afford it without a scholarship.

Those specific layers of the Earth ignored the Layer General Warnings that not applying EPF (Earth Protection Factor) 50 would help slow this process.
Instead, the "Gen X*2^50" layer decided to be ungrateful like all of the other layers before it.

Billion/trillion dollar companies that are profiting billions of dollars should be required to host free software projects since many of them utilize the software. Tell Trump to write an executive order for it.

Speak for yourself, my crescent wrench is not a hammer.
But it is a wrench, bug killer, 'whack-a-mole' device, 'just give it a tap' device, and a hand-held or thrown object for self defense.

The latter usually against spiders.

How about the board members take $1 yearly paychecks, end all bonuses and options, and pay back all bonuses received in past 2 years? Then maybe they can pull themselves up by the same bootstraps that stomped the company into the ground.

All hedge funds and large financial institutions should be sued by all 'non-rich' shareholders. There are literal 'dark pools' that are used to make their intended trades hidden until they are executed and reported. This gives large institutions privy access to upcoming trades that normal investors are not aware of.